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plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato years brooklyn
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. Robert Nozick
plato eye vision
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life… Virginia Woolf
plato men average
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee. Walter Kaufmann
plato inspiration thinking
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? Rebecca Solnit
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Joseph Joubert
plato circles bottles
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished. Koren Zailckas
plato men evil
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Marcus Tullius Cicero
plato men errors
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
contentment tunes cadence
Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune. Sarah Ban Breathnach
contentment loses
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. Jose Saramago
contentment analysis asking
If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
contentment useless show-me
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. Josh Billings
contentment littles
I am content with what I have, little be it, or much. John Bunyan
contentment
Our content Is our best having. William Shakespeare
contentment rich poor
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. Benjamin Franklin
contentment deeds ifs
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. Democritus
contentment difference gained lives simply work
Contentment is not something to be gained by possession.You can not work simply at being content,but must work at making a difference.True contentment is gained by the difference you make in the lives of others. Jill Pendley